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Vol. 6, Issue 2, Part A (2020)

Descriptive study to assess the level of anxiety and hope in cancer clients undergoing radiation therapy in selected hospital at Raipur Chhattisgarh

Descriptive study to assess the level of anxiety and hope in cancer clients undergoing radiation therapy in selected hospital at Raipur Chhattisgarh

Author(s)
Vibha Bansriar
Abstract
Introduction: Cancer has emerged AS an important health problem in India. More than 1.5 million people suffer from cancer at any point of time in India-according to India cancer society. A considerably large number of cancer clients suffer from clinical depressive syndrome, grief response and discouragement and anxiety. But studies among cancer clients show that there are great individual differences in the way they cope with the disease and how the significance of the disease is appraise. Hope seems to be one of the strategies for coping with cancer. Even though many cancer clients confront cancer with a hopeful spirit, not all clients are hopeful.
Methods Research Approach: Research design used was descriptive research design. The conceptual framework based on theory of health belief model was used for the study which is designed by Rosenstoch’s 1974 and beeker and Maimamn’s 1975. The setting for this study was the selected areas of DR. Bhim Rao Ambedkar memorial, Raipur, Chhattisgarh NON Random purposive sampling technique was used for 100 cancer clients in selected hospital at the time of data collection in Dr. Bhim Rao hospital at Raipur. The tool developed which includes
Part-I Section-I: A) Demographic variables.
Section-II: B) Incidence of illness Part –II: Zung self anxiety scale was designed by william w.k. Zung to quantify the level of anxiety for clients experiencing anxiety like symptoms. The ZSAZ scale is a 20 item self report assessment device which includes measure of state and trait anxiety. Each time a little time;” ‘some of the time “, good part of the time “, most of the time.
Part-III: A standardized tool developed by keye herth (1992) and used to measure hope in the study. It is specially designed to measure the level of hope in cancer clients the tool is in 4 point likert format strongly disagree, disagree agree, strongly agree.
Results: It has been observed that in this study descriptive research design was used. The population in the study present study cancer clients. Total 100 samples were taken. Sample was collected through the use of Nonrandom purposive sampling technique. To reliability of tool data of the structured interviewing was analyzed by split half method. The reliability co-efficient of the tool was found to Below 0.93. Hence the tool was found to be valid, reliable and feasible.
Section I: Descriptive of sample characteristics.
Section II: Analysis of level of anxiety and level of hope of cancer clients diagnosed with cancer undergoing radiation therapy.
Section III: CO-Relation co-efficient analysis to find out the co-relation between the level of anxiety and level of hope of cancer client undergoing radiation therapy.
Section IV: Chi Square analysis to find out the association between the levels of anxiety and level of hope with selected socio-demographic variable.
Conclusion: Majority of the client had mild to moderate anxiety level (40%) and most of the client had average hope level (44%), Moderate degree negative correlation found between anxiety and hope level of client with -0.53 coefficient correlations. Significant relationship was found between anxiety and hope level with duration of radiation therapy and diagnosed with cancer.
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How to cite this article:
Vibha Bansriar. Descriptive study to assess the level of anxiety and hope in cancer clients undergoing radiation therapy in selected hospital at Raipur Chhattisgarh. Int J Appl Res 2020;6(2):01-06.
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